Jake Weiner Movie Updates

Liu Yifei, also known as Crystal Liu, is set to star in Disney’s live-action adaptation of the classic Chinese tale Mulan.

The Littlest Bigfoot, author Jennifer Weiner’s latest book for kids, will be made into an animated feature by Chris Bender.

d Good Fear Films is developing a movie about the legal battle that followed the 1971 prisoner revolt.

20th Century Fox has made a six-figure deal to acquire Man Alive, an elevated sci-fi spec script by new writer Joe Greenberg.

Burt Wonderstone producers Chris Bender, J.S. Spink and Jake Weiner are teaming up with Ahmet Zappa for Monster X.

Paramount Pictures is buying Agatha, spec screenplay written by Allison Schroeder which has Will Gluck attached to direct.

Y: The Last Man, the acclaimed Vertigo comic co-created by Brian K. Vaughan, is one step closer to hitting the big screen.

After scripting Red and seeing it hit as an action comedy built around an aging cast, Jon and Erich Hoeber have been set by Summit Entertainment for another action comedy.

Johnny Rosenthal has been tapped to pen Area 52, Summit’s adaptation of a sci-fi comic book created by Brian Haberlin.

Management-production companies Caliber Media Co and Benderspink have teamed with Simplicity Media to launch an experimental feature film and social media project.

Benderspink is heading to The New West, optioning Black Bull Media's graphic novel.

The writing team of Douglas Cook and David Weisberg has sold an untitled comedy-action pitch about the world of repossessing airplanes to Summit.

Production-management outfit Benderspink has optioned the rights to Red Station, the first book of a spy thriller franchise.

David Robert Mitchell, writer-director of Myth of the American Sleepover, has been set to direct romance drama Ella Walks on the Beach from his own script.

Tex Davis penned the road trip comedy about a father who teams up with his kid neighbor to save the virginity of his daughter.

Warner Bros. is looking for Undying Love, setting up the vampire comic as a feature with Benderspink and Stephen L'Heurex.

Warner Bros. Pictures is going to war in the future, snapping up Colin Treverrow's script "World War X" and setting it up with Silver Pictures and Benderspink.